The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-28
OUR DRILL.
A Business Plan That Will Insure
Its Complete Success.

A Business Plan That Will Insure
Its Complete Success.
The project of having an interstate
drill in Austin next May is meeting with
such pronounced and universal favor from
our citizens, and is so rapidly taking a
practical and business like shape, that it
may now be set down as fixed fact that
the movement will be pushed forward to
magnificent success, and the interstate
drill of May, 1888, at the capital city of
Texas, will be the grandest affair ever
| held in I'll state. 1t is unnecessary to-day
to elaborate upon the manifold reasons why
Austin, above and beyond all other Texas
cities, is the place par excellence for an
interstate drill. These reasons will be
given in due time, as soon as the weather
gets little cooler and all of our citizens
have returned home, but for the present
the plain and palpable pecuniary ad-
vantages to each individual citizen of Aus
tin in giving this encampment, interstate
drill and dedication of the new Texas state
house, all within one week, will be set
forth, and everyone truly interested in the
welfare of Austin will paste these reasons
in his hat, and show every croaker, if
there be any in this community, that look
ing at this affair from the most selfish
standpoint there is money in it for every
man in business in Austin. 1t matters not,
even if there are few who oppose the
public-spirited movement, because only
| two hundred citizens will be needed to in
augurate tine enterprise and to push it to
glorious and successful elimination.
There is no question but that out of a
population of $1,000 inhabitants, 200 men
can easily be found smart enough to see
that their individual investment
of 800 each will pay them dividend in
actual cash greater than any other invest
ment they could possibly make; and be-
sides, they will never have to pay in cash
but 1875 on each share of stock subscribed
for. The few who may oppose or attempt
to throw cold water upon the movement
will soon come into line; because their
good sense will teach them that not only
from military, civic and social stand
point, but from a financial view, it will be,
to draw it mildly, bonanza for Austin.
And now for the reasons which each
citizen is asked to take home to himself
and to ponder over. Every man is re-
quested to remember these reasons and to
be for once if he has never been before, a
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subscribe for a one hundred dollar share of
stock in this enterprise when called upon,
and not by declining make himself out a
mossback, barnacle or an incubus upon
the prosperity of this beautiful city. He
will not be begged to take share of this
stock, because, as said before, there will
be no trouble in few days to find 200
citizens in Austin who will be more than
glad to take this stock. And the names of
these 200 citizens will be known not
only all over Texas, but throughout our
sister states, as the men in Austin who
know good thing when they see it and
who want to show to the outside world a
city with more natural beauty and attract
iveness than the capital city of any other
state in the Union. These 200 broad
gagged business men will manage this en-
terprise from its inception to its grand
and final close, and they will each get back
their $25 and very handsome interest on
that small amount of money. They will
have seen over half million dollars
spent by strangers in this town in one
week, and over 10000 people in attend
ance:
First-Houston and Galveston, in one
corner of this state, have both had affairs
of this kind recently in the hot summer
weather. In the latter place it was held
remote from town on sand hills, and in
the former place IL was somewhat marred
by rain, but Notwithstanding these draw
backs both places came out financially on
top, much to the credit of those progress
sive and hospitable cities.
Second-Austin is centrally located in
the state. 1t is the capital city of
the state, and the citizens of other sec
tions of Texas love Austin as much,
if not more, than her own people do. Be-
sides, there is no city in the state which
has as splendid and convenient grounds
on which to hold great military encamp-
ment as Austin has, nor no such accom-
modations as Austin can now offer to a
multitude of visitors. Then, again, this
encampment is proposed to be held in
May, a month IN which, as everybody
knows, Austin is one of the most beautiful
spots on natures footstool.
Third-It is we'll known that our new
granite state house, now towering over
this beautiful city, second only in size to
the capitol at Washington-the pride of
every intelligent Texan-will be entirely
completed and ready for occupancy early
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mental structure, in the way of speech
making by our most eminent public men,
and grand state ball, can easily be ar
ranged to taks place during encampment
week. That important and imposing
event Of itself will attract thousands of
patriotic Texans from every section of
the state, who have been talking about
: this building for the past six
years, and who have all along
said that they intended to visit
: Austin as soon as the new state house was
finished. Many citizens from the east
and the great northwest will be here on
that occasion.
Fourth-the nearness of San Antonio
4 will insure larger representation of her
= people, both military and civic, than has
ever attended an interstate drill anywhere
else in this state. But, as far as that il
. concerned, it goes without saying, that